re: Need PT guidance on shutdown...

By Seung Min Kim March 22, 2018
President Trump has long promoted and promised a “big, beautiful wall” along the southern border — a pledge he made at the start of his presidential campaign that helped fuel his unlikely rise to the White House.

On Wednesday, Trump lost his best chance yet to secure funding for that promise and he won’t get another one for a long time.

Despite a last-minute flurry of offers between the administration and congressional leadership, the massive spending bill finalized Wednesday includes no major boost for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and no protections for “dreamers” — young undocumented immigrants whom Trump once said he would treat “with heart.”

In the $1.3 trillion spending bill, Trump will secure about $1.6 billion in funding for barriers along the border, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders touted as a win but is nonetheless far short of the $25 billion the administration had sought for Trump’s wall construction.

Democrats were prepared to give Trump the funding he wanted despite their stiff opposition to a wall, but Trump wasn’t willing to compromise more on the fate of dreamers, leaving it unlikely either issue will be addressed anytime soon.

“He would’ve actually fulfilled one of his goals, even though I abhor that goal,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said of Trump. “He would have solved a major immigration question that’s going to tug at his administration moving in the days ahead.”

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But Democrats rebuffed the offer, declining to agree to any temporary extension of DACA permits for only the current program enrollees. Democratic leadership countered with a plan to pair the $25 billion in border wall cash and a pathway to citizenship for a broader dreamer population of about 1.8 million immigrants.

The administration rejected that approach, too. Trump was willing to accept a pathway to citizenship for the expansive pool of dreamers if he secured other significant immigration changes, not solely for the wall, one senior White House official said.

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“President Trump had an opportunity to deliver on two promises. One, build the wall. Two, to sign a ‘bill of love’ for dreamers. His desire to slash legal immigration and increase immigration enforcement makes delivering on these promises impossible,” said Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum. “To put it another way: Trump had two birds in hand; now he’s got nothing.”

The immigration stalemate in Washington has languished for at least a generation, yet Trump’s decision to wind down DACA offered perhaps the best chance in years for lawmakers to clinch an agreement. The GOP’s thumping in the 2012 presidential elections by Latino voters spurred the Senate to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul in 2013, but that bill was ignored by the House.

Democrats have undergone their own evolution when it comes to Trump’s prized wall. After mocking it for the better part of Trump’s presidential campaign and his first year in office, congressional Democrats recently begrudgingly endorsed a massive infusion of cash for the proposal.

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But when the legislation was ultimately released, there would be no dreamer protections, no dramatic boost in wall funding and no major changes to immigration policy. It would be unclear the next time Trump would get a shot at fulfilling a campaign pledge.

“Trump blew it; he got greedy and now he probably will not get his wall,” said Kevin Appleby, senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies. “Thank goodness.”

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Time to get a real job baw

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Yeah, controlling air traffic is straight up easy! You’re such a clever girl!

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But Democrats rebuffed the offer, declining to agree to any temporary extension of DACA permits for only the current program enrollees. Democratic leadership countered with a plan to pair the $25 billion in border wall cash and a pathway to citizenship for a broader dreamer population of about 1.8 million immigrants.

The administration rejected that approach, too.

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So democrats are against a temporary extension of their pet project, DACA, at the current dreamer population, yet democrats say Trump is "unhinged" because he won't accept a temporary extension of another CR...

Why didn't obama give them a pathway to citizenship? How can democrats broaden the dreamers? Seems they were either brought here as infants or they weren't. Why would it need to be broadened? Is it because democrats, including every one of them running in 2020, weren't willing to stick their neck out for them?

Root for your children's future and for our country's sovereignty. Root for less trash over the borders and more highly skilled legal immigrants who can push this country forward rather than drag it backwards.

Economize as much as you can, knowing that your emptier coffers will be replenished once the situation ends.

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Chill out. IRS doesn’t even start processing refunds till Jan 29th

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Considering I always owe more taxes because the gubment thinks I’m rich, that’s not a concern.

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Root for your children's future and for our country's sovereignty. Root for less trash over the borders and more highly skilled legal immigrants who can push this country forward rather than drag it backwards. Economize as much as you can, knowing that your emptier coffers will be replenished once the situation ends.

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Best perspective yet. This situation is one reason to always have some savings.

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you could be looking at a very protracted process.

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call rush.
He's in charge of trump now.

With the 300k+ jobs created last quarter you should get off the government tit and find a private sector job. Never have to worry about government shutdowns again.

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With the 300k+ jobs created last quarter you should get off the government tit and find a private sector job. Never have to worry about government shutdowns again.

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Say it with me..... Air. Traffic. Control. Not a lot in the private sector except for a few low level towers. Any other brilliant suggestions?

Go paint houses or do some handy man work like the rest of us did back in 2008.